Rasputin_Vol
"Slava Ukraina"
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This example is exactly why I said many of us carried magnum sidearms while hunting wild pigs. Nasty mean animals when they get pissed off like getting shot at tends to cause.Tellico area when I was young. And my uncle killed a charging boar with his .44 at "blow its' last breath on your ankles" distance when I missed a shot at 50 yards.
Yeah, threw those Levi's out...
Wild hog hunting in east TN as a kid we had the long gun and a magnum pistol on our hip. Use the long gun unless they charge close then climb a tree and shoot the bastards in the face with a pistol.
I never had to use the pistol thank goodness.
A head on shot with a big pig takes a lot of punch. I remember reading that head on shots result in death due to hydraulic pressure transmitted thru the skull to the brain as the bullet didn’t always clear the thick frontal skull area. One reason the old Marlin .44 was such a great pig gun and you had the same cartridge in your sidearm if you carried one.Out here, I used either the 6.8 SPC or my -10 carbine. Federal Fusion loads in both.
Had JMB's finest on my belt. I figure if 20 rounds of 6.8 or 7.62 don't solve the problem, a handgun won't be much more help.
A head on shot with a big pig takes a lot of punch. I remember reading that head on shots result in death due to hydraulic pressure transmitted thru the skull to the brain as the bullet didn’t always clear the thick frontal skull area. One reason the old Marlin .44 was such a great pig gun and you had the same cartridge in your sidearm if you carried one.
